The Satanists are wiping the floor with Christianity when it comes to morals.

Skeptics have questioned whether the Satanic Temple is real religion or simply smart political theater but founder Lucien Greaves insists it is genuine, citing other religions that lack supernatural beliefs. According to Starr, she and fellow practitioners are simply living according to Satanic precepts.

The Satanic Temple, which is based in Massachusetts but has approximately 20 chapters across the U.S., lists their seven fundamental tenets as the following:

One should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason.

The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.

The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo your own.

Beliefs should conform to our best scientific understanding of the world. We should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit our beliefs.

People are fallible. If we make a mistake, we should do our best to rectify it and resolve any harm that may have been caused.

Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.

Anyone who is familiar with the Ten Commandments will immediately recognize that these seven tenets offer an easier path to equanimity than do the famous Ten. The first of the Ten Commandments—Thou shalt have no other gods before me–asserts the primacy of a single deity rather than the primacy of compassion and empathy. It prescribes competition between religious worldviews–the very antagonism expressed by Christian students in Bremerton and Christian callers from across the country.

By contrast, the seven tenets emphasize positive, pro-social values rather than bad behaviors to be avoided. They largely express egalitarian values that transcend tribal boundaries, in contrast to the Ten Commandments, which endorse the view that women, slaves, and livestock are possessions of men. They invite inquiry rather than certitude, and individuality over tribalism.

Compassion, Acceptance, Meditation

I asked Starr what attracted her to the Satanic Temple. She said that she first became familiar with Satanism through a relationship that has since grown into a marriage. At the time she and her husband met, she was struggling with addiction:

Maybe because he was a Satanist or maybe because he was a good person, he was extremely honest and accepting. He didn’t make judgments; he just loved me for who I was. When that happened, I vowed to live a sacred life. I didn’t believe in God, but I vowed to engage in a sacred practice.

Starr’s leadership in the Seattle Temple is part of that practice. She also says that she was formerly a student of Zen Buddhism and still sits for meditation daily. She sees parallels between compassion as the highest value of Buddhism and that same focus in the Satanic Temple, and in fact has laid out this and related values in a manifesto of sorts at the beginning of her book, The Happy Satanist: Finding Self-Empowerment. “I believe that every human being on this planet deserves love, compassion and connection, regardless of their race, religion, class, sexual orientation, gender, or any other meaningless category beyond ‘human being’. . . . I believe compassion and working together will get us much further than judgment, shame and fear.”

If Lilith and fellow members of the Satanic Temple are representative, the greatest threat to Christianity from Satanism may simply be this: that self-proclaimed followers of Satan come across more sane and kind than self-proclaimed followers of Christ.

Perhaps Christians should consider upgrading from a set of 10 Commandments that were written in the Iron Age to a better set. It might do wonders for Christianity’s public image—and for their ability to follow the teachings of Jesus himself.

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The problem with any belief system, no matter what, up or down or left or right,
is simply that by the time you are old enough to believe, or formulate in your mind any other concept of enlightenment – there are so many thousands already – you are much much too late, because what fucked you up started in the womb a few weeks after conception, and you were not allowed to let your mind/body being get rid of that trauma in the only way it knows how, which is through your emotions. You were most likely fucked up during an extended birth, a breach birth, a caesarean, a doped up mother or other traumatic birth, or you did not bond properly with your mother immediately upon exiting the womb.

That means your parents should have just held you, and in total silence, without shushing or shaking you or talking, they should have let you cry and holler and scream and do what your body wanted to do at that time, because that was when, according to evolution, you should have done it. And then you should not have been “brought up” or “raised”, but you should have been allowed to just grow and play and learn and love and express mind body and thoughts, opinions, whatever.

Our mind/body beings know best. Let it happen, Don’t be afraid. Do not ever suppress the feelings or emotions of any baby or child in any way whatsoever.
Nature knows best. Evolution knows best. You cannot cure a boy of ten years old by hugging him if he wasn’t held and loved as a baby. It is too late !!!
Then as an adult he will be searching to make up for that lack and eventually discover “the right religion” guru or philosophy or other woo or booga booga.

1 Cor 11:13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.

What is the difference? The difference is the fact that we all face the end. “..Whose end will be……(verse 15)” There is an end waiting. Be warned. The deeds of those who discarded God’s riches at Christ’s expenses (G.R.A.C.E.) will count against them.

Satins tenet 4 “The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo your own.

This was the unspoken and most disregarded sentiment on this blog. Christians are being insulted and sworn at with the foulest of language imaginable yet according to satin you are very bad and actually forgo your right express freedom from God with such utter intolerance. By denying Christ you are totally lost.
Now this is my chance to make use of this tenet.

We Christians are set free from the 10 Commandments. We who have the Holy Spirit in us are being guided if we allow Him to have the control of our lives. Every Christian knows this. We do not live by a set of rules, we live in Him and His will in us. The transgressors of the 10 commandments of those outside His grace will be also judged “according to their deeds within or without the 10 commandments”, but the Bible truth is being corrupted by unknowing “freedom-seekers” who eventually find themselves so empty that God, Christ and Allah becomes their front of attack – so fiercely that they violate their own bill of human rights when it gives all and everyone freedom of speech and religion.

No tolerance for the believers and that pace gains momentum when we show that major science contributors also discovered God within their work (Ps19:2) and ended up as believers.

Now your children grow up free from God yet you teach them to be militant towards believers who share the hope of life everlasting. I do not deny that you have some comprehension of love but Christians do feel that at a different level.

Some see love as an erotic experience. Éros (ἔρως érōs) it is amazing how this one is always underlined to express how free the sceptics really are. They can now overturn the natural and do the unnatural to entertain themselves.

Others see love as wanting the best for your offspring and how far you will go to protect them as Dawkins underlines. This is called Storge (στοργή storgē).

Philia (φιλία philía) is the love that the atheist or any other brotherhood have for one another in a peer to peer friendship.

The best love is the one that the Bible expresses so dearly. Agápe (ἀγάπη agápē is the love we see from God. He gave his only begotten Son. He instructs the Christian to – because of His expressed love – love the person closest to you who is in need in the same unconditional way. Lay down your life for them and sometimes He blesses you to see the fruits thereof. He never encourages you to commit suicide and in fact calls you a murderer when you do that – no 70 virgin island in space somewhere if you hurt innocent people.

This by itself, weather you deny the virgin birth or deny the resurrection, or meditate on Bible loving Christians to “upgrade” their 10 commandments (as though they have written it) enforces nobility and kindness towards the world. Why is the world so upset by Jesus Christ, yet they utter His name 100 times a day not taking note. Watch any movie, listen to any discussion between two seculars. Jesus Christ will be mentioned about four times in a ten minute discussion. Why? Look at the shortcut OMG. That violates the 3rd commandment about 7 billion times a day. People on this blog shows antagonism towards God and Christ relentlessly yet they cannot forget His name.So much for being a humanist.

What arrogance displayed by godiot Kwassie to assume that we are referring to his gods when using the word in speech. First off, there exists numerous gods to choose from. I might be referring to the god RA or Zeus or Minerva. Secondly, we do not believe in gods of ANY kind. Since we do not believe in them, we deem it in order to use the word “god” or “jesus” in general speech the same way we would use the words “shit”, “damn” or in fact any word that assist with expressing whatever we want to express.

Lastly, Kwassie by cutting and pasting other people’s work and presenting it as your own is called plagiarism. Are your gotte ok with this unashamed theft? O, and might i add that the source you used is clearly of the dofkop godiot type – jeeesussss man, the idiot does not even know how to spell “whether”. On top of it, the piece is poorly written in typical christian apologetic style. If you want to steal, you should at least steal from a more worthy source.

I will not fall for this malherbe . You are so kind to point to my misspelling of the word whether. I always acknowledge if I do borrow from someone else and hey, maybe their spelling might be better. Take a trip up Table mountain today and marvel at the beauty of our creation. Do this while you can still afford it in the light of Job 27:19.

….”Why is the world so upset by Jesus Christ, yet they utter His name 100 times a day not taking note. Watch any movie, listen to any discussion between two seculars. Jesus Christ will be mentioned about four times in a ten minute discussion. Why? Look at the shortcut OMG”…..

Kwasie, Kwassie, Kwassie,

There are some things that happen right here on earth, you know? Terra firma does exist although godiots are “up in heaven” every moment of their days.
Let me explain veeeery nicely:

You see, some few thousand years ago the idea of a got(te) in a place called heaven took hold amongst people. This idea was then propagated with such fervour that finally a book was written that became a best seller. There also appeared another book for another group of people, and then yet another one for yet another group of people. Well, you see Kwassie, by this time the idea of the gotte had spread wide and far and some leaders and governments even
forced their citizens to believe and accept only the one gotte and not another one’s gotte.

Go forward one or two thousand years, and you find that soooo many people were talking about these gottes, that words and expressions that were part of the gotte-talk entered the vernacular of humans.

In other words Kwassie, it became a…… habit. Yes Kwassie, a habit. A habit to talk in a certain way and say OMG or jeeeeesus ! or crikey moses ! or fuck me! or whatever. End of lesson one.

Kwassie, are you really this simple minded or just playing dumb? There exist many gotte Kwassie. Literally thousands. You too can be regarded an atheist in relation to 99% of all the gotte. When you understand why you are believing in the other gotte, you will understand why i don’t believe in yours.

Are we on speaking terms again Malherbe. Praise the Lord! I do learn a lot from your emotional spins.

I have heard this from the very first day that I had stumbled into this blog. The other gotte.

No other “religious leader” can compare to Jesus Christ. Every other religious leader is either alive or dead. Jesus Christ is the only one who was dead and is now alive. Indeed, He proclaims in Revelation 1:17–18 that He is alive forevermore! No other religious leader dares make such a claim, which, if not true, is utterly preposterous.

Another important difference between Jesus and other religious leaders is found in the very nature of Christianity. The essence of Christianity is Christ, the One crucified, resurrected, ascended into heaven, and returning someday. Without Him—and without His resurrection—there is no Christianity. Compare that with other major religions. Hinduism, for example, can stand or fall entirely apart from any of the “great Swamis” who founded it. Buddhism is the same story. Even Islam is based upon the sayings and teachings of Mohammed, not upon the claim that he came back to life from the dead.

The apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:13–19 says that, if Christ were not raised from the dead, then our faith is empty and we are still in our sins! The truth claims of Christianity are based simply and solely upon the resurrected Jesus Christ! If Jesus did not, in fact, come back from the dead—in time and space—then there is no truth to Christianity whatsoever. Throughout the New Testament, the apostles and evangelists base the truth of the gospel upon the resurrection.

One other significant point is the exceedingly important fact that Jesus Christ claimed to be the “Son of God” (a Hebraism meaning “characterized by God”) as well as the “Son of Man” (a Hebraism meaning “characterized by Man”). In many passages, He claims to be equal with the Father (see, for example, John 10:29–33). To Jesus are ascribed all the prerogatives and attributes of Deity. Yet He was also a man, born of a virgin (Matthew 1:18–25; Luke 1:26–56). Having lived a sinless life, Jesus was crucified in order to pay for the sins of all men: “He Himself is the satisfaction of God’s wrath for our sins; and not for ours only, but for those of the whole world” (1 John 2:2), and then He was resurrected from the dead three days later. He is fully God and fully Man, the theanthropos [from the Greek for “God” (theos) and “Man” (anthropos)]; yet He is one person.

The Person and Work of Christ poses an unavoidable question: What will you do with Jesus? We cannot simply dismiss Him. We cannot ignore Him. He is the central figure in all of human history, and if He died for the sins of the whole world, then He died for yours as well. The apostle Peter says, “There is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). If we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour from sin, we will be saved. With acknowledgement to gotquestions.org

But this is totally from a philosophical point of view. In the clip John Lennox vs Don Demitriades discusses Christ and the tooth fairy or other gods. You might get to discover the Christian way of thinking. That Malherbe is of course if your question was an honest one. https://youtu.be/BBI3SSwACR4

He he, you are funny indeed. A simple, short answer would have sufficed, but i suppose you need more space to explain why your gotte are superior to the others.

You obviously realise a muslim will defend his gotte in a similar fashion, citing the Koran as reference. He will supply similar reasons why his god is the “real deal”. Ditto the Buddist. Who should i listen to Kwassie, you or the Muslim? Please help.

Something Christians are seemingly incapable of explaining, is the whole concept of a god dying for your sins. Kwassie, perhaps you have the answer, especially since you have cited this as one of the reasons why your god is the real one.

My dilemma: Your god sent his son down to earth to die for our sins. (fucked up idea, but lets assume i am missing something). Your god knows for sure the outcome of this”death”. Why? Well because he isomnipotent and knows the future and secondly because he is 100% sure his son would rise from death to park off next tohis eight hand for eternity. So where is the sacrifice? The pain of the nails? Come on, many people suffer farmore on a daily basis and frankly, if i knew for sure this pain is just a phase on the way to an eternal life, well bring it on!.

I suppose you want a two sentence answer for this one Malherbe? I will try to keep it in one passage. So, a covenant happened Genesis 15. Israel expanding through the seed of Abraham that found themselves in Egypt after selling Abrahams grandson Jacob to be a slave. Moses led them out but God gave them another covenant. The 10 commandments. Now this covenant sort of tried to supersede the first one where Abraham offered to sacrifice his only son Isaac with Sarah on an altar on Gods 9nstruction. The 10 commandments was not kept to God’s standard and was nullified by Jesus Christ who became God’s perfect sacrifice to man. He offers your cleansing as a free gift. Those who take it never die. They receive the Holy Spirit.

Below follows an excerpt from the film, “Inherit the Wind”, where the defence attorney argued the threat the law had in restricting free thinking and free speech:

“Can’t you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools? And tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it. And soon you may ban books and newspapers. And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other, because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honour, with banners flying and with drums beating we’ll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind! “